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n. - Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers; Shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil.

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  • John Bignall's sheep's milk blue on rye with Julian Wolfhagen leatherwood honey
  • Then Ansel scurried from his hiding spot beneath the branches of a leatherwood and buckthorn.
  • That's just plain scary, I made myself some fruit bread smeared with leatherwood honey only the other day.
  • Most of the rain forest contains myrtle beech Nothofagus cunninghamii, leatherwood Eucryphia lucida and sassafras Atherosperma moschatum, of which myrtle beech is...
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